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Equipment are items that can be associated with an ally and grant them various bonuses; anything from boosted stats to new skills. Each one has an associated star rating. In order to equip an item, an ally must have a number of available equipment slots equal to the item's star rating. Equipment may also be upgraded by P. Pumpkin at his shop. Each piece can be upgraded a number of times equal to its star rating. Each upgrade not only improves the item's bonuses, but also reduces the star value by one, except for the final upgrade, since each equipment must take a minimum of one equipment slot.
Whenever you upgrade a piece of equipment, that upgrade will actually permanently affect all items of that name. So if you have 3 Iron Claws, and you upgrade them, all 3 copies of your Iron Claws will gain the benefit of the upgrade, and if you buy or acquire a 4th Iron Claws, that one will already be upgraded as well.

1 All other survival gear items must be at their maximum level, before the item Modern Aircraft can be obtained. It was once found after having explored and completed all islands except Enigma Isle, the Mystery Ship and Coliseum Isle, after defeating King Wairobot withSally Prin and Kairobot during the player's 3rd play-through of the game in Hard Mode (these requirements are not definite, and are just an educated guess).